Who says doubt cannot be cured?
By Vivek Sharma
Presence of a doubt in the mind only shows that you have the foundation for it in your memory already! What is that foundation or the layout?
It is simply a jumble of certain stored up unverified experiences from which bubble out thoughts, images and words (sounds). Even when you are enjoying positive thoughts, this doubt format will throw up ideas to negate that. There is an unseen clash of thoughts within which remains unresolved and what you experience is doubt. You wouldn’t even know where the positive thoughts have vanished thereafter. The only mistake we commit is that we let it go unresolved—this firms it up and it increases its interference.
The Science of Cure
People say there is no cure for a Doubting Thomas. But there is if you diligently follow the instructions of Krishna in the Bhagwad Gita.
He has used a Sanskrit phrase as the principle cure for it. In fact, He is always talking applied science, but we have somehow restricted it to the now-understood Spiritual awareness.
However, He conveys through the Gita that spirituality is nothing but a science of evolution from what you are to what you can be. In Discourse Eight He uses a phrase to get rid of the format which conditions the human life and is responsible for giving him doubt perceptions too. He says, “अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्। यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति ना अस्ति अत्र संशयः।।”
Here the meaning of the word कलेवरम् is the key in the context and then the phrase ना अस्ति अत्र संशयः कल means semen and वर, which is formed out of it. Now if we get deeper into the word we shall find that here Krishna is talking about the chromosomes (गुणसूत्र) where is coded everything, even the doubt format! Now Krishna says if you want to get rid of संशयः, just commit Me to your memory—as The Principle, who is All Perfect, All Powerful, All Present. Till what time? Till अन्तकाले, till the exclusion of the doubting thought. What will happen if you do so? Krishna says “ मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्। यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं”, remembering Me, you get rid of the chromosomal format and reach My Dimension, Format, Energy. What happens then? Krishna says ना अस्ति अत्र संशयः, there is no doubt then in this respect!
Jump Out of It!
Krishna’s principle to kill or cure doubt is to leave the format by evolving to the higher idea, using your memory, or by filling up your memory with this idea to the exclusion of the doubt. A moment shall come when the higher idea shall prevail and doubt shall be non-extent. It will as if you have taken the staircase and reached the roof top which opens into the infinity, leaving the ground floor which has a particular format, dimension operative on those living in there!
So, leave the conditioned ground, take the staircase and reach the rooftop of infinite possibility. No doubt here. It is a necessary action since Krishna says संशयात्मा विनश्यति, a doubting person is destroyed. ज्ञानासिनात्मनः छित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत, use the sword of right knowledge ( commit Me to memory), cut this conditioning doubt format, get to the right combination or format, get up! O Bharat